A controversial Democratic operative considered a Clinton “hatchet man” wrote a second anti-Trump memo, which was presented to the FBI in October 2016 by former UK spy Christopher Steele, according to The Guardian.
Cody Shearer, a former journalist-turned political activist, cites an unnamed source within Russia’s Security Service (FSB), meaning that both anti-Trump dossiers tied to Hillary Clinton used Russian disinformation to discredit and undermine a candidate for U.S. President.
Shearer’s name recently appeared in a January 25 letter from the Senate Judiciary Committee to six individuals or entities thought to be involved in the funding, creation or distribution of the original salacious and unverified “Trump-Russia Dossier.” Recipients of the letter – including John Podesta, Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Schultz – are asked to submit all communications between a list of 40 individuals or entities, one of whom is Cody Shearer.
And now we know why Grassley/Graham asked the DNC to turn over all communications they had with Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal. https://t.co/bVjGCEPK2k
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) January 30, 2018
The FBI is still analyzing the “Shearer memo” and pursuing “intriguing leads,” according to The Guardian, which – according to the paper, could mean that the agency may be using Shearer’s research to corroborate parts of the original “Trump-Russia” Steele dossier. In other words, Christopher Steele provided the FBI with two dossiers, the second of which may have been designed to support the first.
FBI was given a 2nd phony Trump dossier in Oct 2016 by Steele, this one written by Clinton hatchet man Cody Shearer. 2nd dossier was meant to “corroborate allegations” made in the first phony dossier created by Steele, funded by Clinton & DNC. Both dossiers cite FSB as source.. https://t.co/OPh0Onlzgq
— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) January 30, 2018
As we previously reported, Congressional investigators have been researching what appears to be a massive and coordinated conspiracy between the Clinton campaign, DNC, FBI, DOJ, Obama Administration and opposition research firm Fusion GPS to discredit Donald Trump with Russian disinformation. The scheme involved high level officials within the DOJ and FBI, including recently demoted Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe – whose “7th floor” Deep State cabal both exonerated Hillary Clinton while simultaneously “investigating” Trump.
A brief refresher of facts and allegations:
- The DNC and Hillary Clinton’s PAC was revealed by The Washington Post to have paid opposition research firm Fusion GPS for the creation of a dossier that would be harmful to then-candidate Donald Trump.
- Fusion commissioned former UK spy Christopher Steele to assemble the dossier – which is comprised of a series of memos relying largely on Russian government sources to make allegations against Donald Trump and his associates.
- According to court filings, Fusion also worked with disgraced DOJ official Bruce Ohr, and hired his CIA-linked wife, Nellie Ohr, to assist in the smear campaign against Trump. Bruce Ohr was demoted from his senior DOJ position after it was revealed that he met with Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson as well as Christopher Steele – then tried to cover it up.
- Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, denied under oath to the Senate Intelligence Committee that he knew about the dossier’s funding, while Clinton’s former spokesman, Brian Fallon, told CNN that Hillary likely had no idea who paid for it either.
- Current and past leaders of the DNC, including Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) also denied knowledge of the document’s funding.
- Podesta met with Fusion co-founder Glenn Simpson the day after the Trump-Russia dossier was published by Buzzfeed News.
And now we can add Clinton crony Cody Shearer and his second Trump-Russia dossier to the list.
Fact that both of these “dossiers” cite unnamed FSB sources for their allegations of “Trump collusion” & it doesn’t happen to raise any red flags is astonishing. Why weren’t both of these dossiers treated as text book examples of Kremlin disinformation? https://t.co/jSPbJZ5JVF https://t.co/mLSbXaedQH
— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) January 30, 2018
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